Update Tenable Nessus Manager Plugins on an Offline System

Required user role when using Tenable Nessus Manager: System Administrator

Use the following procedure to update the plugins that a Tenable Nessus Manager parent node offers to its child nodes. For more information, see Clustering.

On Tenable Nessus Manager, you can update plugins on an offline system in two ways.

  • Option 1: Use the Manual Software Update feature in the Tenable Nessus Manager user interface.

  • Option 2: Use the command-line interface and the nessuscli update command.

Option 1: Manual Software Update via the User Interface

  1. Download the file nessus-updates-x.x.x.tar.gz, where x.x.x is the version number, from https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus.
  2. On the offline system running Tenable Nessus Manager (A), in the top navigation bar, select Settings.
  3. From the left navigation menu, select Software Update.
  4. Select Manual Software Update.
  5. In the Manual Software Update dialog box, select Upload your own plugin archive, and then select Continue.
  6. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the compressed TAR file.

  1. Select the compressed TAR file and then select Open.

    Tenable Nessus Manager updates with the uploaded plugins.

Option 2: Update via the Command Line

  1. Download the file nessus-updates-x.x.x.tar.gz, where x.x.x is the version number, from https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus.
  2. On the offline system running Tenable Nessus Manager (A), open a command prompt.
  3. Use the nessuscli update <tar.gz file name> command specific to your operating system.

    Platform

    Command

    Windows

    C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\nessuscli.exe update <tar.gz file name>

    macOS

    # /Library/Nessus/run/sbin/nessuscli update <tar.gz file name>

    Linux

    # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessuscli update <tar.gz file name>